People v. Jamison

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jeffrey M. Atlas, J.), rendered January 22, 2003, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 41/2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly declined to instruct the jury on the agency defense, since there was no reasonable view of the evidence, viewed most favorably to defendant, to support that defense. Another apparent participant in the drug operation “steered” the purchasing undercover officer to defendant, who…